topic Re: 10G interfacing on the vSRX in vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466719#M875
<P>Thanks&nbsp;<A href="https://forums.juniper.net/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/129361" target="_self">ScreenJun</A>&nbsp;for the reply it is appreciated. Just to clarify, so the link speed for the interface will still only show 1000Mbps?</P>
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<P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="vSRX-interface-10Gb.png" style="width: 901px;"><img src="https://forums.juniper.net/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20067i6FF9EE4D665EDB76/image-size/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999" title="vSRX-interface-10Gb.png" alt="vSRX-interface-10Gb.png" /></span></P>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:52:03 GMTdwolcot12019-08-15T13:52:03Z10G interfacing on the vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/318874#M351
<P>Lab testing to see real performance across a vSRX and I'm not seeing full performance across a simple test; so, I'm trying to figure out what I may be missing.&nbsp; This is supposed to be a really simple demonstration of performance: 1 box, with 1 vSRX, with 2 interfaces to 2 Acterna test-sets.</P>
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<P>vSRX is 17.3R1.10, using KVM on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS</P>
<P>I've allocated 16G of RAM and 8 vCPUs, not shared with anything else.</P>
<P>I have an intel 4-port 10G SFP NIC installed (Intel X710 chipset).</P>
<P>I've updated the kernel module, adapter driver (3.45), and firmware (6.01).</P>
<P>There are Intel-supported 10G SFPs installed.</P>
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<P>I've mapped SR-IOV interfaces on Port 1 of the NIC and another SR-IOV interfaces on Port 4 of the NIC.&nbsp; There are no other VMs on this server and there are no other demands on the 10Gb ports.&nbsp; I have an Acterna BERT test between the two running traffic in one direction only.&nbsp; I'm seeing lost frames at 4.250Gbps and I'm not sure what I can do to increase performance across the VM.&nbsp; If I start traffic in the other direction, I can cause frame loss on-demand.&nbsp; The vSRX datasheet says it can support 100G; but, there weren't details on how to achieve it.&nbsp; I'm not sure what limitation I'm hitting.</P>
<P>-show chassis routing-engine: indicates &lt;10% processor utilization</P>
<P>-show chassis routing-engine: indicates 62% of memory is used.</P>
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<P>A coworker indicated that there may be a different way to map the interface on the vSRX side....After giving the vSRX the PCI interface, it instantiated its own ge-0/0/x interface.&nbsp; I do not see a way to instead map an xe-0/0/x interface.&nbsp; Did I miss a step?</P>
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<P>Thank you for any insights, suggestions, or recommendations!</P>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:20:44 GMThttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/318874#M351paulinator2018-02-07T21:20:44ZRe: 10G interfacing on the vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/318940#M352
<P>Hi,</P>
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<P>I think vSRX is working as medium flavour , please check the <A href="https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/vsrx/topics/concept/security-vsrx-kvm-understanding.html&nbsp;&nbsp;" target="_blank">https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/vsrx/topics/concept/security-vsrx-kvm-understanding.html&nbsp;&nbsp;</A> -&nbsp;vSRX Scale Up Performance .&nbsp;</P>
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<P>As per <A href="https://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000489-en.pdf&nbsp;" target="_blank">https://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000489-en.pdf&nbsp;</A> 5.4 Gbps is throughput for IMIX traffic in vSRX&nbsp;medium flavour .&nbsp; to support PCI passthrough minimum requirement is :</P>
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<P>Thanks,</P>
<P>Vikas</P>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 05:56:25 GMThttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/318940#M352vikassingh2018-02-09T05:56:25ZRe: 10G interfacing on the vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466687#M872
<P>This seems to be one of the few posts that keeps coming up about 10Gb networking on the vSRX so I wanted to add my questions here. I can create a new thread if needed.</P>
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<P>Are you <EM>required</EM> to map the NICs via SR-IOV in VMware in order to use more than 1Gbps and get the NICs to show as 10Gbps? The documentation states you are required to use SR-IOV when using 9 vCPUs to scale the throughput. But it doesn't necesssarily mean it is required to get greater than 1 Gbps.</P>
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<P>Will the interfaces show as "xe" interfaces or stay as "ge"?</P>
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<P>We don't need full 10 Gbps through put so we are still using a medium deployment with standard nic mapping with VMXNET3 drivers and the link speed is only showing 1Gbps. The box contains Intel X550 dual 10Gb adapter card.</P>
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<P>&nbsp;</P>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:30:27 GMThttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466687#M872dwolcot12019-08-14T21:30:27ZRe: 10G interfacing on the vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466708#M873
<P>Hi,</P>
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<P>Are you <EM>required</EM> to map the NICs via SR-IOV in VMware in order to use more than 1Gbps and get the NICs to show as 10Gbps?</P>
<P>NO</P>
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<P>Will the interfaces show as "xe" interfaces or stay as "ge"?</P>
<P>NO, the interface naming convention does not change to xe if the host NIC is 10G.</P>
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<P>&nbsp;</P>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:37:49 GMThttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466708#M873ScreenJun2019-08-15T08:37:49ZRe: 10G interfacing on the vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466719#M875
<P>Thanks&nbsp;<A href="https://forums.juniper.net/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/129361" target="_self">ScreenJun</A>&nbsp;for the reply it is appreciated. Just to clarify, so the link speed for the interface will still only show 1000Mbps?</P>
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<P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="vSRX-interface-10Gb.png" style="width: 901px;"><img src="https://forums.juniper.net/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20067i6FF9EE4D665EDB76/image-size/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999" title="vSRX-interface-10Gb.png" alt="vSRX-interface-10Gb.png" /></span></P>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:52:03 GMThttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466719#M875dwolcot12019-08-15T13:52:03ZRe: 10G interfacing on the vSRXhttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466763#M879
<P>Hi,</P>
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<P>Yes, even the speed would show that as the interface naming is "ge".</P>
<P>Note:- I agree, if it could read/learn and switch the naming convention it would have been easy for reader.</P>
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<P>Further, to check the speed etc on the interface, I recommend to rely on "monitor interface traffic".</P>
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<P>&nbsp;</P>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:31:35 GMThttps://forums.juniper.net/t5/vSRX/10G-interfacing-on-the-vSRX/m-p/466763#M879ScreenJun2019-08-16T12:31:35Z